[PATCH] Make xfce4 start up faster

[Kok, Auke]

Colin Leroy wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:32 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch seems nice, I'm in favor of loading all of the available
> cores at startup instead of doing things sequentially :-)
> 
> About the splash screen:
> 
>> Downside of this patch is that the splash screen is possibly off, but
>> we are going to completely disable the splash screen anyway since
>> splash screens are evil and waste time.
> 
> Maybe it would be possible to use your method when splash screen is
> disabled, and do things sequentially when it's enabled? That could
> solve the problem.
> 
> Also, is there any potential of race condition (one component depending
> on another being already started) like with /etc/init.d, or are the
> various components standalone?

actually when I think of it, the code is already fine with relation to the splash
screen messages being passed. They now just get sent really fast so it will look
weird :) - nothing breaks through.